To enhance workplace rights and industrial relations in apparel industry, an agreement has been inked between ILO, Sweden and Bangladesh recently. The fund US $ 5.4 million project that will continue from November 2015 to December 2020 will be financed by Sweden for this. The project named ‘Promoting Social Dialogue and Harmonious Industrial Relations in the Bangladesh Ready-Made Garment Industry’ will be implemented in five years. The UN agency ILO says this new initiative is aimed at enhancing labour relations through ‘improved dialogue between employers and workers, particularly at workplace level’. Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation Isabella Lövin, ILO Director General Guy Ryder, and Bangladesh’s Secretary for Labour Mikail Shipar signed the agreement in the margins of the UN General Assembly. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali witnessed the signing. The project will engage international buyers and trade unions also.
